Original scientific paper
The Influence of Prayer on Religious Behaviour and Moral Evaluation of the Members of the Cursillo Movement
Stipe TADIĆ
Abstract
In the first part of the paper the author discusses the
phenomenon of new lay ecclesiastical movements, their
genesis, fundamental characteristics and beginnings of
activity in the world and Croatia. Special attention is given to
the contemporary international lay Catholic Cursillo
movement, which spread in Croatia in the late 1960s. In the
second part of the paper, based on a poll of members of
seven contemporary ecclesiastical movements among which
there were also 74 members of the Cursillo movement, some
results of the Cursillo members' poll have been specially
analysed. In other words, the influence of personal prayer on
their actual religious life, some fundamental moral
evaluations, attitudes and religious behaviour: relationship to
those who are not believers, to people who have wronged
them, their attitudes towards intentional termination of
pregnancy, thoughts on contraception, adultery and infidelity,
the insolubility of marriage and premarital sexual relations.
Prayer has been taken as an independent variable because
all contemporary ecclesiastical movements, including the
members of the Cursillo movement, have been recognised
as a new type of (post)modern religiosity, as renovatory and
prayer-movements in the Church. The results obtained show
that there is a significant correlation between the frequency
of the examinees' individual prayers and their actual religious
behaviour, moral evaluation and attitudes.
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Hrčak ID:
16259
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Publication date:
30.4.2005.
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